Having a futuristic setting is a relatively new area for Activision Blizzard, as most of its previously successful Call of Duty versions have never ventured past the modern day.
The contrast between the IT pros of my past and their modern-day counterparts is striking.
Counterinsurgency wars over the past century of modern warfare have been extensively inventoried, studied, analyzed, evaluated, and judged.
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The Ritz reopened its doors this summer with an overhaul designed to integrate the old with the new and bring all the splendor of its past into the modern age.
Which Test umpire, modern or past, has the dubious distinction of awarding the most lbws?
Put together with artefacts from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, it is a four-part historical tour of the ancient Olympics and their modern rebirth in the late 1800s, including a hall of past torches and a gallery of 16 extraordinary modern athletes profiled along with examples of medals from each modern Games.
But there is little debate about how structures from the past could be incorporated into modern democracies.
Life expectancy for people with HIV in the UK has increased by 15 years in the past decade, thanks to modern drugs and earlier treatment, a study suggests.
She sets her own standards, from her striking sculptured hair to the bright lashings of eye shadow caked on a face that she has admitted in the past owes a lot to modern surgery.
Although some modern scholars drive past the notion of evil and instead explain Hitler's conduct as a reflection of his childhood and self-esteem issues, for most survivors of the 20th century he is confirmation of our instinctive sense that evil does exist.
In food and social matters both, contemporary Africans in South Africa are never uncognizant of the past, never uncognizant of the modern world.
But there may be an explanation: that the psychological make-up which encourages K-type behaviour worked in the past but is not appropriate to modern circumstances.
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The music was something new in American rock: both ancient and modern, rooted in the past and eschewing the psychedelic sounds then in vogue.
In the past year, the campaign to supply modern antiretroviral therapies to developing countries has gathered momentum, and forced concessions from some multinational drug companies.
Nielsen finds that, as of this past March, men who owned a modern game console like the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or Wii were using their TVs almost as much as women: while males in the broader population typically spend 37 fewer minutes in front of the big screen every day than females, that gap shrank to a negligible 11 minutes when console use came into play.
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The subscription service offers instant access to current and past seasons of shows like 30 Rock, Modern Family, The X-Files, Arrested Development and Family Guy.
The way it succeeds is because Quinn sprinkles modern-day analogies to make the past come alive.
Still, the new generation of modern diesels could bury the ghosts of the past.
Moving from past to present, there is also the context of modern thinking.
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Nor, despite the increase in average lifespan in the rich world over the past few centuries, is post-reproductive survival a modern phenomenon.
Anyone who supposes that technology, or the exacting use of modern materials, implies a break with the past should look at Foster's work--and learn.
White's revival produced the Baby Doll Ladies, with costumes, face paint, music and dances that are modern takes on the Baby Dolls of the past.
That rings about right: not only is Mahathir a trained physician, but as leader for the past 17 years, he has generally been brisk, modern, quick to diagnose and even readier to prescribe.
There is another elephant in the room, which is what she describes as the "love-hate" relationship Americans have with the UK, its colonial past, and the idea that in the creation of modern-day America the very idea of a monarchy was considered then eschewed.
But it is a neat example of how modern life has rendered an evolutionary adaptation from the past irrelevant.
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Modern tree houses present a rare opportunity to drive past the McResort and break free of travel's predicable stops and well-traveled routes.
That past is often evoked in a prickly and defensive way by modern Greeks when their behaviour (individually or collectively) is at its least glorious.
Johnson offered observations and lessons from the past that painted an inspiring and often serendipitous portrait of how modern innovations came to exist for mass consumption.
On the vast expanse of the river itself, a huge freight barge from Germany glides slowly past the city's medieval cathedral, towards the more modern structures of the chemical industries.
So beer drinking was one of the things that reminded the Sumerians that they were different from the people of the past who hadn't had any of the trappings of modern life.
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